I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a newspaper clipping/cutting (= a story cut out of a newspaper )
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I found some old newspaper cuttings of the band's first concert in Liverpool.
be cutting a tooth (= have one of your first teeth growing )
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Poor little Patrick was cutting another tooth and we had hardly had any sleep.
cutting board
cutting edge
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research that’s at the cutting edge of genetic science
cutting room
give...a cutting edge
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The team are relying on Gregg to give them a cutting edge .
grass clippings/cuttings (= pieces of cut grass )
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You can use your grass clippings to start your own compost pile.
press cutting
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■ NOUN
cost
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The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.
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That is the hit and miss effort of cost cutting .
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Combined with cost cutting , that enabled the group to cut its borrowings by £70 million to £136 million.
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Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year.
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At present the opportunities they provide for cost cutting are more to the fore.
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But as part of a council cost cutting exercise the Redcar ten mile road race will not be held this year.
grass
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The machine is probably most familiar when used by local councils to clean grass cuttings and leaves from pavements and footpaths.
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I understand that Council staff may also require access for grass cutting and trimming.
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It died from bloat, having eaten grass cuttings I'd left in a bin outside the paddock.
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They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings .
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We use no activator; the grass cuttings and regular turning promote decomposition.
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And you are grass cuttings , the bush that won't flower.
newspaper
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Equally intriguing are the missives from my brother, the newspaper cuttings that arrive every three weeks or so.
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I've had newspaper cutting sent to me by other people.
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Then she remembered Kev's little bundle of newspaper cuttings , and she turned to Bri with a kiss.
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Prints of every size showing every kind of combat from medieval jousting to the latest newspaper cuttings of the Zulu War.
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There are special collections of country information, newspaper cuttings , market research reports and theses.
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This will include newspaper cuttings and the references referred to above, although taking care not to breach copyright laws.
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It should contain law reports, books on personal injury, journals, box files of the newspaper cuttings and videos.
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The bed covered in papers: old letters, plans, newspaper cuttings , legal reports, jotters.
room
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It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor.
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Industry shake-ups cursed Earth Girls with a protracted delay between the cutting room and the screen.
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Back at the station, the film was rushed into the cutting room and we caught the programme.
■ VERB
press
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There are extensive collections of Regional Council committee papers and minutes, government circulars and press cuttings .
take
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Ensure a regular supply by taking a few sucker cuttings each year, so you always have plants at different stages of growth.
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You can also take cuttings from indoor chrysanthemums.
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However, to be on the safe side, it is better to take cuttings in August to overwinter under glass.
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Propagation is done by taking cuttings and simply planting them in the gravel.
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How should I prune it and take cuttings ?
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Make your own plants, take cuttings or divisions from neighbours' plants, rather than buying them from nurseries.
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September Take cuttings from strong young shoots and root outdoors as for soft fruit.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the cutting edge (of sth)
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Amazingly, he accomplished that while dancing on the cutting edge.
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As president of a modeling agency, Page Parkes follows the cutting edge.
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But the cutting edge doesn't come cheap.
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In fact, this white-owned company was often on the cutting edge of new directions.
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Settlement houses and settlement house workers were at the cutting edge of social change.
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The decade's retreat from the cutting edge is certainly in evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Could it be that with these cuttings he is working to modify the image of the family I present?
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One is by the leaf bud cutting taken in May and June and stuck in a greenhouse.
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Railway lines channel wildlife into the city centre along their cuttings and embankments.
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Take cuttings of violas, taking material from healthy, non-flowering basal shoots.
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Tax cutting may also have passed its peak.
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The Forestry Commission has opened a plant centre selling cuttings from its rare flora.
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Then she saw that the last cutting was new to her.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
board
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He spread an oilcloth on the table then laid the big cutting board on top of it.
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Turn the rice out on to a cutting board .
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Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing.
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Perhaps there's hope for me yet, he thought as he unrolled the fillet on the cutting board .
corner
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And some of the crematoria were cutting corners .
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Of course this new policy is about cutting cost because it is about cutting corners in personal care.
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Farmers should not be tempted to risk their own lives, or those of others, by cutting corners .
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As with any training or fitness work, the process can never be speeded up without cutting corners .
costs
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Thus an industrial salesperson may be able to advise his customers on improving productivity or cutting costs .
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An obsession with cutting costs and with theories of self-help has downgraded public services and re-evoked images of the poor law.
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In a similar manner, cost-cutting exercises move always in the direction of cutting costs without a specific target.
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The improvement is partly the fruit of years of cutting costs .
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Despite lots of talk about cutting costs , each of the top studios currently has at least one money-losing blockbuster on its books.
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But it also ties in with cutting costs .
edge
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We seem to lack the cutting edge right now.
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But the cutting edge doesn't come cheap.
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She has a sharp cutting edge and woe betide the Europhile who treads on her toes.
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Any man who has taken his brothers to court three times since 1980 must have a cutting edge to his personality.
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With the advent of new candidates, their appeals needed to be freshened up and their cutting edges toughened.
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Despite lacking the cutting edge , Villa continued to create openings throughout the second half.
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There s no cutting edge at the moment.
price
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The cost of the compensation was being met out of the money saved by cutting price subsidies.
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It has set its face against cutting prices .
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Forecourts are drastically cutting prices after the Tesco supermarket chain announced a massive drop in the cost of a gallon.
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And she blasts supermarkets for failing to pass on profits to customers by cutting prices .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the meeting Mark made some cutting remarks about Sally, who wasn't there to defend herself.
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Emily always managed to say something cutting whenever we met at a party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the cutting edge doesn't come cheap.
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Moulded, splinter-proof cutting blocks, called Barboards, are also available.
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The firm then experimented by making one side of the cutting knives with serrated edges, leaving the other smooth-edged.